Original Title: Dnevnici moga oca

Year: 2024
Length: 97 min
Country:  Bosnia and Herzegovina
Film Category: Feature Documentary

North American Premiere
Followed by a Q&A

Cast & Credits

Director: Ado Hasanović
Written by: Armando Maria Trotta, Anna Zagaglia, Ado Hasanović
Editing: Esmeralda Calabria, Elisabetta Abrami, Desideria Rayner
Composer: Iosonouncane
Original VHS footage: Ben, John and Boys
Director of Photography/Color grading and Digital restoration: Ado Hasanović, Ercole Cosmi
Sound editing and Audio restoration: Antonio Giannantonio
Audio Mixing: Daniele Viti
Sound effects editing: Matteo Bendinelli
First Assistant Director: Chiara Cruciati
Executive Producer: Antonio Badalamenti
Produced by: Carlo Degli Esposti, Nicola Serra
Production Company: Palomar Mediawan, Mediawan Rights
International distribution: Mediawan Rights

Film Synopsis:

It is August 1993, when Bekir Hasanović exchanges a gold coin for the camera he will use to film everyday life in Srebrenica from then on. The images he records during the days of the war with his improvised crew, called Dzon, Ben & Boys, give life to the unexpected portrait of a population lost, though able to maintain a solid connection with reality without giving up its typical humor. Ado, Bekir's son, starts from these images and from the pages of the diaries kept by his father to reconstruct the image of his father and, together with his mother Fatima, finally be able to understand how he survived the Death March and the Srebrenica genocide.

Director's Biography

Ado Hasanović is a Bosnian director based in Rome. He studied interethnic dialogue in Norway, directing at Sarajevo Film Academy, and continued at Rome's Centro Sperimentale. He's the artistic director of the Passaggi d'Autore Film Festival in Sardinia and founder of the Silver Frame Film Festival in Srebrenica. His award-winning short films include The Angel of Srebrenica, Mama, Pink Elephant, and Let There Be Colour. My Father's Diaries (2024) is his debut documentary.